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NEW AND INTERESTING PLANTS RECORDED BY W. A. DUTT (1870 - 1939) OF CARLTON COLYILLE AND LOWESTOFT. C O M P I L E D BY F .
W.
SIMPSON.
A rather worn copy of Hind & Babington's 1889 " Flora of SufFolk" recently came into my possession. This belonged originally to R. E. Leach, F.G.S., of Beccles, a subscriber to the Flora, and later to William Dutt, East Anglian author and naturalist.' Dutt inserted a number of most interesting notes and records of Suffolk plants during his residence at Lowestoft and Carlton Colville. These include many alien plants which had been found chiefly by Mrs. F. Baker and identified for her at the South Kensington Museum by Mr. Baker. The aliens nearly all occurred at Carlton Colville where cargoes of com from Levantine ports were landed from ships. The majority of them were found growing between Morse's Malthouse and an adjoining Yacht Builder's yard. Although, to my knowledge, no herbarium specimens exist, (enquiry at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, has, so far, failed to locate herbarium specimens) I think we can accept the majority of the records as authentic, with the exception of a few critical species which I have queried or found necessary to omit. Dutt collaborated with a number of local botanists, including the late Mr. E. R. Long of Lowestoft who was a competent observer. Very few of these records have ever been published and therefore form a valuable addition to our knowledge of the Suffolk flora, especially in the neighbourhood of Lowestoft and that distnct of the county known as Lothingland. How many of the more interesting plants still survive must be decided by a thorough search by local botanists. Some I have already seen, and these appear to be holding their own or increasing. In many instances it has been necessary to revise the nomenclature of Dutt's original entries, and I have added other details, such as the distribution of aliens. I Dr and and
must thank Mr. H. R. Lingwood for his biographical note, S. M. Walters of the University Botany School, Cambridge, Miss M. M. Whiting, F.L.S., for help in checking the names distribution of several of the uncommon aliens.